The Frictionary

Sunday, February 23, 2014

The Frictionary # 519

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4706. Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. (Maxwell Maltz)4707. Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. (Robert Cody)4708. Principles are tall prejudices, that's all. (Hervé Bazin)4709. You live only once? FALSE. You live every day, you only die once. (Michael Linhart)4710. A poet is a person translated into words. (Anna Kamienska)4711. The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. (Tom Wolfe)4712. We must never forget that the traveler is a foreign body. (Olivier de Kersauson)4713. After time, married couples start to finish each other's sentences. The most popular ending is "Shut up." (newfylover1)4714. Walking is falling forward. Each step we take is an arrested plunge, a collapse averted, a disaster braked. In this way, to walk becomes an act of faith. (Paul Salopek)4715. We easily believe what we fear and what we desire. (Jean de La Fontaine)
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

The Frictionary #518

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4696. Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)4697. I think the two-party system is working just fine. Besides, buying a third one would be a bookkeeping nightmare. (Wiley Miller -"Non Sequitur")4698. When technology goes forward, environment goes backward. (Stéphanie Grammond)4699. Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen. (Michael Linhart)4700. This is where autumn wind easily plunders courtyard trees,but the sorrows of distance never scatter away. (Po Chü-i)4701. A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors. (William R. Inge)4702. The main reason I sleep on an air mattress is due to inflation. (PunPoint)4703. The exception always comes from the reason for the rule. (Joseph Joubert)4704. There are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. (Sydney Smith)4705. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. (Paulo Coelho)
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Sunday, February 09, 2014

The Frictionary # 517

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4686. The most important days are the day you are born and the day you find out why. (Mark Twain)4687. The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. (Peter DeVries)4688. The sixth sense should be the sense of humor. (Réjean Lévesque)4689. If you want to save face, keep the lower half shut. (Ann Landers)4690. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. (Buddha)4691. If I simplify, Facebook is used to talk to your family and friends, Twitter is used to talk against them. (Billy Tellier)4692. Thinking outside the boxmost often resultsin a bigger box. (Positively Wyrde)4693. When I waste minutes, hours take revenge. (Tariq Muhammad Majeed)4694. Send Animal Crackers to PETA, half-eaten. (J. Chris Newberg)4695. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. (George Bernard Shaw)
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Sunday, February 02, 2014

The Frictionary # 516

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4676. Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. (Marvin J. Ashton)4677. An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret. (Stanislaw J. Lec)4678. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future , and not enough presence. (Eckhart Tolle)4679. Memory is not a faculty that forgets, memory is a faculty that invents. (Stéphane Laporte)4680. The serve was invented so that the net could play. (Bill Cosby)4681. Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. (Peter DeVries)4682. To convince is to intimidate. (Jean-Marie Poupart)4683. People are no longer human beings. We should be called human doings. (Richard Carlson)4684. Snowmen fall from heaven - unassembled. (?)4685. The undressed is vulgar, the nude is pure. (Robert Green Ingersoll)
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